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Hope after many years of pain with topamax

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Friday, April 18, 2008
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It took me over 3 months to build up to 100 mg of topamax. I started with the 25 for a week, then the 50 I stopped at 50 my migraines stopped. I had some pretty severe side effects, dizzy, heart palpitations, anxiety, those were the worst.......oh and the night terrors! I would sit straight up i...
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    Nancy Harris Bonk
    Monday, April 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM

    Hello, and welcome to MyMigraineConnection.com!

    It can be so frustrating waiting for our bodies while it adjusts to medications, and then see a reduction in Migraine frequency and severity.  But as you said it is worth the wait.

     

    If you need information on Topamax, you can find that HERE.

     

    Thank you for creating a SharePost. SharePosts are a form of blogging, and there are many things you can do with them. You can share an experience, suggest something that's helped you, use SharePosts as a Migraine and headache journal, and many other things.

    We also have a discussion forum that you may want to check out. Especially if you have questions or are looking for information, you may find the interaction on the forum to be quite helpful. To get to the forum, just look for the orange box marked "Manage" and click on the Migraine Forums link. Because our forums are maintained by a third party, you'll need to register for the forum. You can use the same information you used to create your community log-in if you like. If you want to go directly to the forum, you can click HERE.

    Along with your personal "My Home" page and the discussion forum, you'll find links to a great deal of helpful information on the main page of our site, http://www.MyMigraineConnection.com. You can also sign up for our free newsletter about Migraine disease and headache disorders on the home page in the upper left hand corner.

    If you have any questions, please feel free to post them to the forum or send me a message through my profile.

    Welcome again,

    Nancy Bonk
    MyMigraineConnection.com Expert

    PS: If you receive this message from more than one of us, please excuse the overlap. Thanks!

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